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Nearly 4,000 Legally-owned Handguns in Iceland

RÚV (Iceland)

24 February 2021

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Over 69,000 guns were legally owned by private citizens in summer 2019, which is the most recent figure available from the State police.

Around 39,000 of those were shotguns, nearly 26,000 rifles, and the number of handguns was nearly 4,000. There were 1,500 registered sheep guns, mostly owned by farmers. Of that 70,000 total, 1,855 had been decommissioned or deactivated.

ID: N807

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